River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-02-03

For God and Home and NaiUe LGnd.'
Regular meeting of the Union on
Friday, at O'Clock. at the home Of
Mrs. w. W. Thayer.
We are planning for birthday party
on our 5th Anniversary which comes
early In March. We are anticipating
a good time, like all little folks of that
age.
We notice the latest dodge of the
liquor traffic is the Compensation
Clause to the Prohibition Amendment"
in Penn.
QueTy-Will the traffic grant coInpen-
Satl0n for the lives and treasure dis
troyed, the homes broken up, souls lost,
expenses of courts, prisons. insane
asylums, jails and poor houses!
III so, then we can grant compensation
for property made vaiueless by prohi-
bition of the traffic, and have large
balance left 10 help elevate and rebuild
fallen humanity.
Printer on Whisky.
Adelbert Beach, Chicago Evening
journal cOmpOsitOr, makes the follow
ing sturdy contribution to the liquor
question in the Rawlins (Wyo. IT, La
borette:
However large wages are earned by
workman, in whatever trade, profess
sion, or employment, he will not i'm
prove his condition materially if he
pdtroniZes "A saloon. Many working
men Including some Knights of Labor
spend more money for liquor than
4. =. . L..
large wages if the money is wasted for
liquors that do the drinker no good!
Every Knight of Labor should be
knight of saving. No liquor saloon has
right to exist on the patronage Of
wUrkingmen. This saloon question is
the great question; for with the money
he spends IN saloons many workman
could in four years pay for fine home.
and his manhood would be preserved
intact besides. The Knights of Labor
should deal with the liquor problem.
1t is question which vitality concerns
them. Let the Knights of Labor and
all the toilers shun the saloons and
liquors of every kind. Let the, pro-
clamation go forth throughout the
United States that the saloon shall no
longer thrive by hard-earned money,
and that odiOus institution is doomed.
What benefit do the saloon and sa-
lOOn-keepers confer upon the commu-
nifty! Honest workingmen should not
join with the gamblers, thieves, des-
peradoes and ioafers to continue sa.
loon keepers in business. The liquor
traffic never conferred one solitary
benefit upon the laboring man since
creations dawn. The worst enemy of
labOring men is the demon drink.
Every saloon is a drunkard factory.
Every place that sells liquor is sure TO
rob scores of men of everything which
enlightened manhood holds dear;
among which are purity, honor, char
acter, talents, manly vigor, friends,
position, wealth, home.
He is true Knight of Labor who is
Ill favor of a higher and better life in
every sense of that term. Let there
be a general advance along the line of
all the manly virtues. Does life of
sensuality pay! That which is grossly
sensual cannot be for the good of the
workingman. Liquor drinking, the
use of intoXicants as beverage. is a
form of mere sensuality. Why! Be-
cause such indulgence is not necessary
to mans happiness, and beca Use, on the
contrary, it brutaiZeS man, steals
away his brains, and reduces his ca
pacity tor real happines. 1t is not all
of life to live. Happiness depends
upon the quality of life as well rs on
the quantity. A drunkard of gultttOn-
Gus or impure life is Il subjecG of re-
proach to any workingman. Boycott
the saloon and all its allies.
The pay.car of the Baltimore & Ohio
road, last week brought $4,000 to
Newark, Ohio. Accompanying the
paymaster was a man who gave the
total abstinence pledge to every en-
ploye as the condition of being retained
in the employ of that road. The late
terrible accident said to be due to
by an employee, probably ac-
counts for this Acknowledged Note.
'If liquor be so beneficial, why are the
drinkers (moderate) debarred from so
many places of trust"
A petition from the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union of the Dist OF
Columbia was presented 10y Senator
Colquit of Georgia to the United
States Senate on Jan. 2lst.
1t accuses the District Commission
ers Of permitting the visciOus and per-
nicious business of gambling halls,
pooling rooms and saloons, dens of
prostitution, immortality and vice in all
sections of the city in violation of law,
as they believe, and in disregard to the
purity, morals and rights of the citi-
Zens; that there were now one-hundred
more saloons in the city than ever
were known before: that large num-
Der Of houses of prostitution were per-
united to sell all kinds of liquor without
license, but by simply deposltlng 500,
with the commissioners and other oil
GERS of the district; that a granting of
"A liquOr license to house Of lll-fame
even was IN violation of the law.
Other facts were alleged in the petition
and eight charges were included.
The petition further demands thorough
Union Signal.
The w. G. T. u. of that District are
a band of noble Christian women and
would not sanction such petition
without knowing whereof they speak
and they filled the seats of the Senate
Chamber while it was being presented
knowing that they had the right on
their side. The petition was endorsed
by the ministers of the gospel.